Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems, Opening, part 4, sentence 30
[13] This is an ancient story of Kulóskap which they told long ago.
Who acts: This, FOOTNOTES · What happens: be, tell · To what, where: ancient story, 13 · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, FOOTNOTES), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 13 | punct |
| 2 | 13 | 13 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | root | root |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 13 | punct |
| 4 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 story | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 story | cop |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 story | det |
| 7 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 story | amod |
| 8 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 13 | parataxis |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Kulóskap | case |
| 10 | Kulóskap | Kulóskap | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 story | nmod |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 told | obj |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 told | nsubj |
| 13 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 story | parataxis |
| 14 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 ago | advmod |
| 15 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 13 told | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 13 | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | This | a ancient story | of Kulóskap | tree rules | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | FOOTNOTES = footnote | a ancient story | ago property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent which=Recipient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Kulóskap the master, and other Algonkin poems», Project Gutenberg book 78673 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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